Ellen Jorgensen
Dr. Ellen Jorgensen cofounded Aanika Biosciences, a biotech startup that enables sustainable practices by using microbes to track, trace and authenticate products throughout supply chains. She holds a Ph.D. in Cell & Molecular Biology from New York University and has spent over 30 years in the biotechnology industry.
Zane Starkewolfe, PhD.
Zane S
Sujala Balaji
Sujala Balaji
Matt Weiss
Matt Weiss
Anabelle Broadbent, PhD.
Dr. Anabelle Broadbent, Founder and Chief Science Officer at Verde Operations (Verde Ops), is an internationally recognized NASA-trained pathogenic microbiologist, food scientist, nutrition scientist, biochemist, food safety and indoor controlled environment agriculture (CEA) expert with over 35 years of experience working in government (NASA & USDA), academia and private industry. She holds the distinction of […]
Eric Beringause
Eric has over forty years of experience in the Food, Beverage, and Packaging industries. He is currently CEO of Winland Foods, Inc., an Investindustrial portfolio company. He has held CEO or leadership positions at Dean Foods, Alcoa, Nestle, Gehl Foods, Prima Wawona, Treehouse Foods, and Advanced Refreshments. He has broad experience turning around both domestic […]
Kate MacKenzie
Kate MacKenzie is the Executive Director of New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Food Policy (MOFP). In that capacity, she advises the Mayor on all issues related to food policy and the City’s food system. Under Mayor Adams, Kate leads the City’s Good Food Purchasing commitments, focused on increasing access to healthy, sustainable foods for […]
Meghan McIlroy
Meghan Mcilroy is Director in North America Disruptive R&D at Kraft Heinz, a trusted food producer of a wide ranging food and beverage portfolio, based in Glenview, IL. She is responsible for delivering on Environmental and Social Governance commitments on nutrition, sourcing, and net zero efforts. She also oversees US Export R&D and R&D Knowledge […]
Kevin McCurdy
Kevin E. McCurdy is the Global CPG Partner Segment Leader for Amazon responsible for identifying and engaging relationships with strategic ISV and SI Partners for the Amazon Global CPG Vertical. Prior to that he served as Vice President, Demand Signal Management at E2open, Inc. He was Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales for Orchestro, Inc. which was acquired […]
Duncan Aust, PhD.
Duncan Aust is Chief Technology Officer of AgroFresh. Aust has been in this role since August 2021 and focuses on AgroFresh’s research and development as well as regulatory and external innovation. Prior to joining AgroFresh, he was Vice President and Senior Vice President of Research and Development for DFB Pharmaceuticals, Coria Laboratories and Healthpoint as […]